2000 IE Tech Tables

2000 IE Tech Tables

Institution:

Programs Eligible for Accreditationand Programs Accredited

Applicable tofour- and two-year institutionsDue August 1, 2000

This form includes a list of accrediting bodies for whichone or more academic programs are currently accreditablein a institution as reported on U.S. Department of Education FORM IPEDS-1C-1(6-1-94) and/or have been approved by the Commission on Higher Education.

According to Section 59-101-350, the Commission isresponsible for collecting “the number and percentage of accredited programsand the number and percentage of programs eligible for accreditation” fromfour- and two-year post-secondary institutions to be included in the annualreport to the General Assembly.TheCommission on Higher Education also uses this information as a base to fulfillrequirements in Section 59-103-30 for performance funding to collectinformation on Instructional Quality by looking at the accreditation ofdegree-granting programs.

If your institution offers one or more programslisted in the Commission’s current Inventory of Academic Degree Programs (http://www.che.sc.gov/academicaffairs/affairs.htm )that is accreditable in one or more of the followingcategories, you should complete the columns in the table that follows byplacing an “x” in the box.For thoseagencies that accredit individual programs within departments, please put thenumber of programs in parentheses beside the “x”.An accreditableprogram is one that is eligible for accreditation, regardless of whether or notthe institution chooses to pursue accreditation.An accredited program is one that hasbeen granted full accreditation status by the appropriate accreditingagency.

The addition or deletion of an agency from thislist is a prescribed process, administered through the Commission’s AcademicAffairs Division.If an agency is addedto this list the date that it is added dictates when an accreditableprogram should be counted “against” the institution with regard to its fullaccreditation.The most recent agenciesthat have been added to the list have their corresponding dates listed so thatinstitutions can better calculate the time frame for accreditation.Any agencies that appear on the list withouta corresponding date should be understood to have appeared prior to May 1998.For a complete set of policies and procedures regarding this process, see theCommission’s website at: http://www.che.sc.gov/Academicaffairs/accreditation%20guidelines.doc .

LISTOF NATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL AND SPECIALIZED ACCREDITING BODIES RECOGNIZED BY THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION

According to Section 59-101-350, the Commission isresponsible for collecting “the percent of lower division instructional coursestaught by full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and graduate assistants” fromfour- and two-year post-secondary institutions to be included in the annualreport to the General Assembly.

The Commission will use previously-reported CHEMISinformation for data in this table.Institutions will have an opportunity to proof this information prior tothe publication of the January 2001 report.Faculty definition will be any faculty, staff or graduate assistant whoteach a credit course.

According to Section 59-101-350, the Commission isresponsible for collecting “student scores on professional examinations withdetailed information on state and national means, passing scores, and passrates, as available, and with information on such scores over time, and thenumber of students taking each exam” from four- and two-year institutions to beincluded in the annual report to the General Assembly.TheCommission on Higher Education also uses this information as the primary sourcewith which to fulfill requirements in Section 59-103-30 for performance fundingto collect information on Instructional Quality and Graduates’ Achievements bylooking at the scores of graduates on post-undergraduate professional,graduate, or employment-related examinations and certification tests.

Past committee work andthe development of performance funding have defined the collection of thisinformation to include only first-time test takers (except the teacher educationexams at four-year institutions, which include all test takers) for thosestudents who completed an examination during the period of April 1, 1999through March 31, 2000.Thefollowing list displays the exams that your sector has reported in thepast.Please use this list as a guidefor the exams you report this year on the table provided.

In addition to thisinformation, the Commission is interested in collecting supporting data forother exams that may be used in the IE and performance fundingprocesses.These exams were identifiedin a meeting with institutional, Commission staff, and State Tech Boardrepresentatives in July 1999 for possible inclusion in these data collectionefforts.As we continue to look closerat performance indicator 7D and through data verification efforts, we areinterested in more detailed information that could affect the inclusion ofthese exams, or others.Please providethe information on the additional exams as requested below.Should you have suggestions for other examsto include here, please add those to the list with the appropriate information.

The Commission will request national and state pass ratesand any additional information for these examinations, as it is available, fromnational and state agencies to be used in the report to the GeneralAssembly.These national and stateagencies can be found in your copy of “A Closer Look” (pp. 100-101).

Theexams below represent additional examinations identified through the July 1999institutional and State Tech meeting.Please provide the following information for these exams.Feel free to add others that may reflect thedegree programs at your institution and measure the success of your students onprofessional examinations.